Exoscale vs DigitalOcean vs AWS

Evaluating European Cloud Hosting Alternatives

If you are looking to compare Digital Ocean, AWS and other European Cloud alternatives, then you're in the right spot!

DigitalOcean: a relentless focus on simplicity.

Compared to traditional VPS hosters, DigitalOcean has a better
interface and superior virtualization technology.
Being KVM powered ourselves, we could not agree more
with that choice.

AWS Hosting is versatile

AWS on the other hand is the first choice when true
versatility is required. Few other providers support
cloud native use cases, enterprise workloads and
anything in between as well as Amazon does.

But here's the thing. There is no one size fits all.
Different projects have different requirements and many
developer teams proudly only agree to disagree.

So when the VPS like use case that DigitalOcean focuses
on is all you need their simplicity is hard to beat.
On the other hand, when you need all the versatility of
AWS you are prepared to live with the complexity this
brings.

We built Exoscale for teams that need more than
DigitalOcean but don't want the AWS enterprise features
to get in the way.

Comparing pricing structure

If you want to compare AWS hosting pricing with most Swiss, Austrian or German hosting companies, you may not find many European options that can offer the same pricing structure and the same costs. Check out Exoscale's pricing and you will see that we match most of the American options when it comes to pricing. Exoscale is the most affordable and secure AWS alternatives in Europe.

Choosing the right tool for the job

Simplicity can only come from reducing options.
Simplicity needs focus. But a feature that makes things
a little bit more difficult in one use case can
suddenly make things drastically easier in another use
case.

Take Exoscale security groups for example. When all you
want is a single cloud server, it seems overkill to
configure and assign a security group for this.
But as soon as you go cloud native and scale out to more
than one server, it suddenly becomes incredibly useful
to simply assign all of them to the same security group
and have all firewall rules applied automatically.

This is just one example, but it shows how choosing
the right tool for the job can quickly pay off.

General

Simple & intuitive UI

API & tooling

Simple & fair pricing

Datacenters

worldwide

Europe

worldwide

Compute

Instance types for any purpose

GPU

Snapshots

Cloud-init support

Linux & Windows support

Live migrations

Storage

High I/O local SSD

some instance types

Network block storage

Scalable object storage

Networking

DNS

IPv6

not for VMs

Elastic IPs

Private networking

Load balancing service

coming soon

Cluster friendly traffic pricing

Security Groups

Direct connectivity

Last but not least, let's talk privacy

The fact that both Amazon and DigitalOcean are U.S.
based can complicate things for European users. EU data
privacy laws require personal data to be stored in
Europe or in countries with equal or stronger data
privacy laws.

Being based in Switzerland, governed by some of the
strongest data privacy laws in the world means Exoscale
can be a great option to meet even the strictest data
security requirements.

The future iscloud native

We believe the applications of the future will be cloud
native. This is why we strive to build the best cloud
for developer teams that already build cloud native
applications in Europe today.